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B1991.048.180
[Photographic postcard] Out for a tramp with the dogs hunting ptarmigan, Doc. [addressed to] I.M. Auringer, Cohoes, NY [postmarked April 11, 1915, Flat, Alaska]
Keywords: hunting, animals
Collection: B1991.048 Dr_ H_E_ Auringer Collection
B2000.014.502
(502)( Racing Claudia Keogh in the lead Tanaina, May 31, 1915)
Keywords: children
Collection: B2000.014 Malina
B1995.010.1968
[aerial of coastal village in winter, airplane wing in foreground, Shaktoolik?]
Collection: B1995.010
B2015.008.403
George with bee veil, smoker & gloves [George standing in orchard, crates stacked under trees in background]
Collection: B2015.008
B1989.016.1059
#209. Palmer hay. Hewitt's Photo Shop [large stack of hay bales partially covered with tarp]
Keywords: agriculture
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1996.011.360.neg
Islands on way up (in pass) [scenic from ship]
Collection: B1996.011 Dr_ Edward A_ Dunlap
B2022.002.45
Cal Williams in University of Alaska Anchorage cap and gown, receiving an honorary doctorate
Keywords: Cal Williams, Academic degrees
Collection: B2022.002 Cal Williams
B2015.014.138
[two Alaska Native men standing on barge docked at gravel beach, pelts or sacks on barge, tug on far side of barge, fishing boat or riverboat in background, low hills in distance. Paper with Velox stamp]
Keywords: transportation
Collection: B2015.014
B2015.014.149
[photographic postcard. man, possibly pilot, standing next to three Alaska Native women posed by single engine airplane, two women wearing squirrel parka with walrus tusk gussets and knitted cap, one wearing reindeer parka and Western style wool hat]
Keywords: aviation, clothing
Collection: B2015.014
B2019.003.078
“Anvik, Christ Church Mission" Louis, half br. [young boy posed on building steps next to pile of fuel wood]
Collection: B2019.003
B1989.016.2226
Alaska, Wishing you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year [Christmas card mat with sketch of trees and holly leaves with photograph of two sleds outside roadhouse. copy neg]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.2227.10
(Eklutna Industrial School) [two multi-story wood-frame buildings and boardwalk, two children sitting on boardwalk at left near clothesline, mountains in background]
Keywords: education
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1995.010.3046
[five Alaska Native children posed on gravel beach, one blowing up Mac’s Foto balloon]
Collection: B1995.010
B1989.016.135
Sydney Laurence painting, Mt. McKinley canyon (1919).
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B2015.008.404
George, Carl Scherer & Dick Freeman. Ready to work on the bees [three people wearing beekeeper veils standing next to tree, crates on wooden frame at right]
Collection: B2015.008
B2015.008.098
2428(92414)(1215pm)(Serpentine and Coxe Glaciers)(From Station F Harriman Fiord)
Keywords: Prince William Sound, College Fiord, Glaciers, icebergs
Collection: B2015.008
B2015.008.644
173.3. Passing Alaska-Yukon boundary post 30 m. below head of White River, 6.14
[view across low brush in flat, horses standing at right near wooden marker. Print cropped,
with loss of caption]
Keywords: horses
Collection: B2015.008
b1969.015.1.38
[Man with pipe, banjo, and dog in front of cabin.] 2.5 x 4.25 nitrate negative
Collection: B1969.015 Fred Winter
B1990.014.2018.1.234.002
72-23 [Sitka; August 1941; woman sitting on top step of wood structure]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B2015.008.1040
E.D. 1. Cabin, bath in extension lately added. W. Hartford, Vt. [view across yard or
orchard to house]
Keywords: farm, vermont
Collection: B2015.008
B1990.014.2018.1.234.001
72-23 [Sitka; August 1941; street scene in Indian Town; woman sitting on top step of wood structure; sidewalk, road, structures in background]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B1989.016.1030.5
GZ-94 (Scenes in Golden Zone) [truck and heavy equipment at Golden Zone Mine, constructing water intake for hydroelectric plant on West Fork of Chulitna River]
Keywords: mining, power generation, electricity
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1990.014.2018.1.268.005
83; Sept. 4, 1942; Aerial view of HIdden Inlet fire [view of mountain; likely aircraft wing at lower left of image]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B1995.010.432
[Fourth Avenue street scene looking east near K Street, automobiles parked in street in foreground, circus parade passing Columbia Lumber Company of Alaska, McKinley Apartments in distance, 1954. Cf. .531]
Collection: B1995.010
B2019.003.074
“Anvik, Christ Church Mission" New girls house, snow drift at second story window [distant view of children standing on top of snow piled up against building]
Collection: B2019.003
B1989.016.1227.5
The Federal Building, Anchorage, Alaska. Hewitt's, 135 [view from southeast corner of Fourth Avenue and G Street with parked automobiles, pedestrians]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.994
M-16. The Matanuska Valley Fair, 1937. Hewitt's Photo Shop [produce display]
Keywords: agriculture
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1990.014.2018.1.231.005
71-5 Captain of Caleb Haley [man with smoking pipe and cap in profile; Sitka; August 1941]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B1995.014.118.10
[sluice box, gold pan, and other equipment at small mining operation on creek]
Collection: B1995.014
B1995.010.3319
[village waterfront as seen from water, crane at dock area at left]
Collection: B1995.010
B1989.016.1228
Alaskan Winter Highway [road in winter with mountains in distance]
Keywords: roads
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1995.014.118.11
[riverboat and barge, possibly sternwheeler Nenana and Alaska Railroad barge?]
Keywords: transportation, boats
Collection: B1995.014
B1979.002.Album1.49
M-15. Cadwell, Miles, Kuney, Gaddes. W. F. Milliken [four seated men posed in wooded area, railroad exploration, circa 1914]
Keywords: Alaska Railroad
Collection: B1979.002 AK Railroad and AEC / Album 1
B2019.003.048
“Eklutna Industrial School, U.S. Government Department of the Interior, Bureau of Indian Affairs” Pie eating contest [young girls posed next to picnic table, onlookers in back, pieces of pie on plates on table, Fourth of July at Eklutna] [Dena'ina Elnena, Idlughet (Eklutna)]
Keywords: Dena'ina, Dena'ina Elnena, Tanaina, Idlughet, Eklutna, Eklutna Industrial School, Eklutna school, Eklutna Vocational School, Boarding school, School, Education, U.S. Government, Department of the Interior, Dept. of the Interior, Bureau of Indian Affairs, B.I.A., BIA, Pie, Pie eating contest, Contest, Young girls, Children, Schoolchildren, Students, Indigenous, 4th of July, Fourth of July, Independence Day, Summer, Holiday
Collection: B2019.003
B2019.007.togiak.19911026.2T1903
Native woman Annie Blue cleaning subsistence seal, fall, Bristol Bay Region, Togiak MRA. Copyright Doug Ogden. Photographer's number: 2-T19-3. Print date October 26, 1991 [woman using ulu to cut seal carcass on cardboard on beach]
Collection: B2019.007
B2015.014.86crop
[two white women sitting with Alaska Native women and girls on wood pile, saw in front of pile, buildings and utility poles in background]
Collection: B2015.014